Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-04-27

nc rs counting the Days That Remain
Until He Is Released from Oftice-A
Determined Resolution That Nothing
Can Alter-CleveIand's Interview will
n Western Senator.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, April 25. The Repub
lican prints special from Washington City
Ill which the correspondent says that he ha:
1t on the authority Of a prominent western
Democratic senator that President Cleveland
made the declaration to the senator who Ii
intimate at the White House, that he 1.-THE
presidenp neither wishes nor will accept q
second nomination. The correspondent says
that this statement can be depended upon as
entirely and strictly true, and that in max
ing the declaration the president spoke with
SO much deliberate earnestness and such
studied emphasis that the senator with
whom he was talking is certain there is no
reason to question his perfect and entire sim
certify. His manner, no less than his words,
indicated that the declaration was simply
the decision of firm resolution which had
resulted from careful consideration of all
phases of the matter. The president said he
had net given any intimation Of his feelings
to the representatives Of the press for the
simple reason that he felt that nothing he
might say about not wishing or being will
ing to to take a second term would be be-
lieved
IL hardly expect any body to believe it." he
said, Except my wife, but it is SO nons the
lessn
Continuing, he added Everything do,
every appointment | make, they think it is
to secure reelection. On the contrary, am
counting the days that remain until my re-
lease from office, just as if l were prisoner
in confinement"
Apparently to make it plain that he had
taken no half-hearted resolution, the presi-
dent proceeded to speak of the exacting and
laborious duties which fell to the incumbent
OF the presidential Office, when the functions
of the presidency are administered with the
scrupulous and minute faithfulness he has
brought to the position. No man, he said,
could endure the severe strain of such la
Dor, at once physical and mental, for a
longer period than four years without risk Of
permanent injury to his health. For these
reasons he could not think of a continu-
ance of his term beyond the four years he
has now half completed. Nothing, he said
to his senatorial visitor, would persuade him
to alter this resolution, which he had delib-
erately formed. He did noe want second
term and he did not believe there were any
obligations Of public duty which could re-
qulre him to forego his personal wishes. The
senator, who has repeated this significant
conversation to his friends, says that while
the president was not talking for the purpose
OF getting his views about reelection before
the public, there was no intimation that he
desired his words to be regarded as confiden-
tIal. The senator has spoken freely of the
to personal friends, without any
injunction of secrecy, and it is not unlikely
this private discussion of the matter will
eventually provoke some formal and
public utterancs by the presi-
dent The senator is quite sure there
was none of the coy strategy of the artful
politician, who thinks by this device to ap-
pear as being sought by rather than seeking
the office, in this disavowal Of second term |
ambition by President Cleveland. He is con-
yinced that every word is meant for inst !
useless to plan the next campaign on the |
basis of denomination OF Cleveland. The |
president was specific and decided in saying |
he could not be induced by any possible con- |
sideration to change his mind; that there |
was nothing in the way of argument which |
could be brought to bear to alter a resolu- |
ton determined alike by every consideration |
of personal comfort and happiness and by |
the most conscientious regard for what |
could fairly be asked Of him as q patriotic |
servant of the people.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 25.-The White |
House was besieged by newspaper corre- |
spondents Saturday to ascertain the truth or |
falsity of the report to the effect that the |
president had announced to a western sena-
tor that he would not accept a renomina- |
ton. When asked by a representative of |
the United Press what truth there was in the !
report, Col Lamont said: ''The president
has not, think, announced that he would, |
or would not, accept denomination. That |
question is not concerning him, and know
of no occasion calling for its consideration at
this timsn